I've posted this here as it's the flash that becomes the shutter speed for this type of shot. The lower the power the shorter the flash duration. Anyway it rained yesterday so I thought I would have a go at these. This tutorial gave me the idea.
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Scott Murray
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They are great shots Geoff. I like them all.
That's exactly why I bought my (unused, so far) lightning trigger. I love the idea but I think the splash itself is lost in all the background white - almost a white-out. I'd use a darker (blue or black?) background to catch it better. I like the way you've got a wet room feel with the water around the stem. Maybe time to dig my trigger out. I did a similar but "reversed" experiment dropping food dye into a pint glass of water (on my Flickr page) - my boys didn't get bored with that too quickly!
Nice stuff.
Nice stuff.
There you go - a wide variety of opinions on here!
Scott Murray
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I like the high key aspect of them, makes the fruit and water splash jump out I think. You would lose this on a black background I think. But I could be wrong.
Thanks Scott I'm glad you like them.
I did toy with doing a set with a darker background, however my primary goal was to create what I'd seen in the video as an academic exercise as much as anything. Also, I find that if you can control bright light and white backgrounds in a small studio, dark backgrounds are a piece of cake. TBH I posted them primarily to see if it gave anybody the impetuous to try it themselves in all this bad weather we're having. One thing I found was that the fruit was in shadow at the front, hence me using a second speedlight from the front. I think the tutorial overlooked this.
Well you've certainly got my creative juices flowing! Job done here!